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Translational Research in the News - Palladino
8/28/2019
Translational Research in the News - Palladino
Pharmacology and Chemical Biology professor Michael Palladino's work on metabolic diseases featured in WTAE story about child with TPI deficiency
Professor & Vice Chair for Faculty Affairs
Michael Palladino's
work on metabolic diseases was recently featured in a
WTAE story
about 11-month old JT Borofka, his parents, his
triosephosphate isomerase (TPI) deficiency
, and their hope for a cure.
Dr. Palladino's lab studies metabolic diseases including TPI deficiency. Their approach is multidisciplinary using genetics, biochemistry, pharmacology and structural biology. They’ve genetically engineered Drosophila to develop numerous animal models of TPI Df and have used these models to study disease pathogenesis, the basis of progressive neurologic dysfunction and conducted genome-wide screens that identified disease suppressors. These suppressors define numerous novel therapeutic pathways and the researchers in Dr. Palladino's lab are actively working to identify drug therapies for TPI Df. To support this goal they have developed stable human HEK cells and a high-throughput, semi-automated compound screening platform. They also have obtained several human patient cell lines to validate disease mechanisms and compounds identified using their drug screening platform.